Jean de Valette

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Jean de Valette

Jean de Valette

@ParisotValette

Just one anon posting whatever comes to mind

Malta Katılım Ağustos 2022
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LOTR Universe
LOTR Universe@Lordoftheringsu·
Did you know? There is a well known audio recording in which J.R.R. Tolkien personally narrates “The Ride of the Rohirrim.” This recording was made in 1952 at a friend’s house using a then new technologya tape recorder. During a period when Tolkien had not yet found a publisher for The Lord of the Rings and had begun to lose confidence in himself as a writer. When Tolkien listened to the recording, he rediscovered the power of his own prose, which encouraged him to continue writing. 📚
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Eric W.
Eric W.@EWess92·
A man stole William Woods's identity, then accused Woods of stealing his, had Woods prosecuted, jailed, and drugged in a mental ward. A dogged detective solved it. Is an above-guidelines sentence justified? Yes, explains Judge Gruender. Might be the craziest fact section yet!
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Jean de Valette
Jean de Valette@ParisotValette·
@JacobAShell FWIW, I enjoy and appreciate your and Tyler’s writing. I would under no circumstances describe myself as being on the left, so probably worth very little!
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Jacob Shell
Jacob Shell@JacobAShell·
There's a certain kind of person on the left, e.g. a Tyler Austin Harper or someone like that, who senses that something within liberalism and progressivism went wrong during the late 10s + COVID period, and is at least willing to talk this over. And another type who if they hear that kind of talk immediately snaps into "us vs them" mode and start hurling insults. From social media hygiene, I am going to start muting/blocking the latter type.
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Jean de Valette
Jean de Valette@ParisotValette·
@dilanesper It seems like this would just further delegitimize the Supreme Court as an institution, particularly after the GOP inevitably counter-packs the court down the road. I don’t think that’s a good thing.
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Dilan Esper
Dilan Esper@dilanesper·
In his podcasts with Matt Yglesias, Brian Beutler often talks about court packing and how he thinks if Democrats did it, it would allow them to get lots of programs through and they would be more popular for doing it. I have a LOT of skepticism about this.
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Jean de Valette
Jean de Valette@ParisotValette·
I have to add 2 quarts of oil between oil change intervals. GM says this is normal. Trading this POS asap
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Jean de Valette
Jean de Valette@ParisotValette·
After driving Japanese vehicles my entire life, I bought a GMC Sierra a few years ago. Never again! Ever
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Jean de Valette
Jean de Valette@ParisotValette·
@lawyer4SMBs Certainly, but as others have pointed out, everyone’s situation is different
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Eric Hsu
Eric Hsu@lawyer4SMBs·
Honest question. If you knew you had a 10% chance of not living past 67 would you still max out your 401k contributions?
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Carrie Severino
Carrie Severino@JCNSeverino·
Remember when Stanford students intentionally disrupted a speech by federal judge Kyle Duncan and were supported by school administrators? Well, UCLA is playing the same game. At a Federalist Society event today, the speaker, DHS General Counsel Jimmy Percival, and Fed Soc leaders showed admirable restraint and poise as their event was repeatedly interrupted by cell phone pings, shouts, and students walking out. So much for the “diversity of thought” that the university says it “values.”  That tolerance doesn’t extend to conservative legal arguments. It’s hard to imagine these students will be committed to the rule of law and upholding judicial independence.
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YitzyFrankel@YitZionist

Truly abhorrent and unimaginable behavior today at the @FedSocUCLA event that hosted a @DHSgov lawyer. Leftist students repeatedly disrupted the event, yelled profanities, shouted, made their phones ping incessantly, and eventually stormed out to a rally that violated all time, place, and manner restrictions. These students can’t handle @FedSoc event about the law, but will remain students at @UCLA_Law and eventually be admitted to the Bar. It is a damning indictment on higher education that students behave so despicably.

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Jean de Valette
Jean de Valette@ParisotValette·
@MostlyMonkey I was looking for a legal job in 2009. I took a 1-year state court clerkship (only offer) that paid around $40k per year and was damn glad to have it
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Jean de Valette
Jean de Valette@ParisotValette·
@bowtiedgerman One of the few things I splurge on but worth every penny (mileage may vary based on the club of course)
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Bowtied German || 🐓
Bowtied German || 🐓@bowtiedgerman·
Private clubs/country clubs are going to become a significant scene over the coming years Spending the day at a club, it hits you like a bus how juxtaposed it is to just sitting out in public. Cortisol levels near zero, everyone is pleasant, poor behavior not tolerated
BTG@BowTied_Golfer

@bowtiedgerman exclusive golf club memberships

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Jean de Valette
Jean de Valette@ParisotValette·
Enraged comments to this are something to behold. For the record, I agree with this take — there is a kind of tranquility that I don’t find in other settings. I suspect it’s highly dependent on the club though
Bowtied German || 🐓@bowtiedgerman

Private clubs/country clubs are going to become a significant scene over the coming years Spending the day at a club, it hits you like a bus how juxtaposed it is to just sitting out in public. Cortisol levels near zero, everyone is pleasant, poor behavior not tolerated

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Jean de Valette
Jean de Valette@ParisotValette·
@JillFilipovic Anecdotal for sure, but wife was 22 when we married (we had dated for 7 years at that point) and I’ve often thought this was ideal
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Jill Filipovic
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic·
This whole conversation is just so weird to me. Truly how many people do you know who are like “wow I really wish I would have married the you I dated at 21, when I was in my prime family-forming years!” Of course work is a big consideration but that’s also tied up in becoming oneself and finding a partner, not just a warm body.
Ross Douthat@DouthatNYT

I think a strong message to both sexes is that relationships are less important than education/career choices until you hit a level of success at which you're "ready" for marriage/kids - and the unready period takes up a lot of prime family-forming years. x.com/olgakhazan/sta…

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Jean de Valette
Jean de Valette@ParisotValette·
@SarahTheHaider Ballot language like this is insane. No reasonable person can read this and understand what legal effect this will have. (I assume the actual amendment text is somewhere on the ballot, but still)
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God Empress of Mankind
God Empress of Mankind@nuhre_·
You guys remember when the devs and “fans” decided the Broodmothers were too upsetting and just removed them entirely? In Dragon Age: Origins, they exist for a reason. Broodmothers are how darkspawn reproduce—women of different races are captured, force-fed tainted flesh, and turned into these horrific, bloated creatures that birth new darkspawn. Humans, elves, dwarves, even Qunari all produce different types—hurlocks, genlocks, shrieks, ogres. And the game doesn’t just tell you—it shows you. That entire Deep Roads sequence? The lead-up to Hespith, the tainted dwarf, reciting that poem as you go deeper: “First day, they come and catch everyone…” It’s slow, it’s unsettling, and it builds into the reveal of what Broodmothers actually are. It’s one of the most effective horror moments in the entire series because it forces you to understand what the taint does to people. Darkspawn aren’t just enemies. They’re the end result of complete physical and psychological violation. That’s what makes them terrifying. That’s what makes the taint feel like an actual existential horror. And now it’s just… darkspawn spawning from some vague pool in the ground? You took one of the most disturbing, intentional pieces of worldbuilding—something that defined how monstrous the darkspawn are—and replaced it with something completely sanitized.
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Robin Wigglesworth
Robin Wigglesworth@RobinWigg·
Jaw dropping article by @kayewiggins and @stef_palma on how the Trump administration’s disinterest in white-collar crime has caused a bear market for defence lawyers. For once I’m going to drop the link in a comment to make sure this doesn’t get suppressed.
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Jean de Valette
Jean de Valette@ParisotValette·
@9mmsmg That’s completely ridiculous, but what can you do? Unless you grew up on a farm, modernity has made people irrational about many things
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9mmSMG
9mmSMG@9mmsmg·
If you want to know how my life is going, we saw a mouse inside the house this morning. A singular, small mouse. My solution was to act like a normal human and buy a mousetrap. What are we doing? We're going to a hotel until an exterminator comes, lays traps and figure out any possible entry points. Why? Wife is worried about the Hanta virus and other diseases rodents can spread. Am I being unreasonable in thinking evacuating is ridiculous? It was a tiny field mouse. There's no visible droppings anywhere I can see. "I can't sleep knowing there is a filthy wild rodent in the house"
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Jean de Valette
Jean de Valette@ParisotValette·
@DrDiGiorgio Interesting idea, but would add another layer of complexity. Do all these claims from the account still get reviewed for medical necessity?
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Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA
Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA@DrDiGiorgio·
Mark is coming around to directly funding patients for medical care. I like this idea, and would expand it to Medicaid (the state deposits funds for you instead of your employer). Let’s make it happen!
Mark Cuban@mcuban

What if there was a bank account available, that required you to deposit monthly, what you would have paid an insurance company in premiums, for an ACA silver plan. So for a family of 5 about $2100. The amount would then be used for Stop Loss Insurance set at $30k dollars. About $300. Another $200 would be used for local Direct Primary Care for your family The balance would be in YOUR bank account. Like an HSA, It could only be used for approved medical expenses. If you never have any medical expenses, you will get to keep the money plus checking act level interest, when you turn 65 If you have a medical event that is more than what you have saved, your bank will loan you the money you need to pay for it, up to the $30k stop loss trigger You would repay that amount using the monthly $1600 net deposit. Once the loan is paid off, the deposits start to accrue to you again. This is not insurance. It’s a specially designed bank account that gives you control, support, a doctor to work with and catastrophic financial protection. Lots of work and issues to be addressed. But I was curious what people think Let me know !

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koomo
koomo@ks_moody·
My 10- and 12-year olds are at high-school level reading and I’ve been reading The Tripods to them at night. It’s a popular sci-fi series from the UK, written in the ‘60s. Not a page goes by without my having to pause and explain a phrase or concept. Such is the state of modern “literature” vs what was common not long ago.
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